SPU kicked off its 2010 United Way campaign on June 7. You should have received a letter about the campaign from Associate Director of Academic Counseling Debbie Crouch, encouraging you to log in and make your gift online. To encourage giving, there will be a drawing for two sets of tickets to the Seattle Sounders soccer match against Dallas on Sunday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m. These are VIP club level seats that include access to the field prior to the game and entry to the VIP lounge that includes complimentary refreshments. Please support our local community by making a pledge to United Way by June 30. If you need further information, contact Debbie at 206-281-2446 or dcrouch@spu.edu. Make your gift online. More

SPU is pleased to announce the establishment of the Edwin E. Perkins Foundation
Scholarship Endowment. SPU's Executive Director of Corporate Giving and Foundation
Relations John West worked with trustee of the E.E. Perkins Foundation, Catherine
Williford, to establish this endowment. The E.E. Perkins Foundation supports
higher education and the pursuit of personal growth through exploration. The E.E.
Perkins Foundation established this endowment to support students, with preference to undergraduate students participating in study abroad programs.

Vision Press, SPU stationery vendor, will be closed August 31-September 15. Because of this, stationery orders placed between August 24 (after 10 a.m.) and August 30 (before 10 a.m.) will be submitted on August 30 instead of August 31. Vision Press asks that all proofs be promptly faxed back to them on the afternoon of Monday, August 30. Those orders will be delivered September 15. If you have any questions, contact Hope McPherson in University Communications at 206-281-2552.

The Fac/Staff Bulletin is published every other week during the summer. If you have information or event news, send it as soon as to Fac/Staff Bulletin editor Tracy Norlen at fsb-editor@spu.edu, or submit an item directly from the Fac/Staff Bulletin. The next deadline is Thursday, July 8. The next Bulletin will be published Monday, July 12.

Professor of Geography Kathleen Braden and Associate Professor of Political Science Ruth Ediger presented a paper at the June 2010 conference of the International Journal of the Arts and Sciences in Aix-en-Provence, France. The paper, titled “International Internships for American Undergraduates: Assessment and Accreditation Challenges," was also submitted for the conference proceedings. Ruth also chaired the opening session.

An article by Assistant Professor of Theology Daniel Castelo was recently published in the International Journal of Systematic Theology 12.3 (2010): 364-372. The article, titled "Continued Grappling: The Divine Impassibility Debates Today," engages a recently released text as a springboard to consider both the advancements and continued challenges that face contemporary impassibilists' (whether God suffers) discussions in Christian theology.

Communications Specialist Clint Kelly, under the pen name Carolyn Bravo, has published White Water Preacher, his first inspirational romance novel. The contemporary romance is set in the fictional backwater of Roaring River, Nevada. It is a place where people go to escape their past, and the town folk are just a tad suspicious of anyone who comes looking for anyone. Advertising executive Kelli Martin tumbles into town and soon wishes she'd stayed in San Francisco. Except for one thing. His name is Spence Tulane, interim pastor and taxidermist, who gives flannel a mighty good name. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and hopefully you'll part with the $12.99 to buy a copy (available SPU Bookstore). The Kindle version's cheaper, but who wants to read plastic?

Perkins Center Teaching Fellow Max Hunter is featured in the June issue of Columns, the University of Washington alumni magazine. Max talks about his journey from the streets of San Diego to a teaching fellow at SPU's John Perkins Center. More

For more information on all current staff vacancies, visit the website or stop by the Human Resources office. You can also call Employment Manager Kathleen Abbott at 206-281-2591 with any questions about a job opening or to refer potential employees to SPU. More